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Monday, October 10, 2016

Trump was Menacing, Mean, Morose in Debate

Donald Trump was Menacing, Mean, and

Attacking (ed)

BY THE EDITORIAL
BOARD- Sacramento Bee (excerpts) Oct. 10, 2016.

Voters who
wondered just how low Donald Trump would go in his race against Hillary Clinton
got their answer on Sunday night.

From the run-up to
the debate – in which Trump held a news conference starring women who say Bill
Clinton abused them – to the debate itself, in which he encroached on Clinton
onstage, called her names and threatened to have her jailed if he is elected,
the Republican nominee made it clear who he is and what he stands for, which
is, among other things, misogyny.

The debate opened
with the candidates taking the stage and not shaking one another’s hand, a
telltale sign of the state of this miserable campaign…

Trump was somewhat
more composed Sunday night than in the first debate, but still interrupted,
offered sophomoric solutions, and lashed out like a cornered and wounded
animal, attempting to
use President Clinton’s transgressions against women decades ago in
a failed attempt to throw Clinton off her game. She remained composed.

The Republican
presidential nominee threatened to retaliate against Republican officeholders
who repudiated him in the wake of the “Access
Hollywood” tape that became public on Friday. In the tape, Trump
bragged about sexually assaulting women, while the host, Billy Bush, enabled
him by laughing.

Instead of
directly apologizing and taking responsibility for his words, Trump chose 90
minutes before the second presidential debate to hold a photo-op with three
women who say Bill Clinton abused them. A fourth woman was raped as a child;
Hillary Clinton, then a defense attorney, defended her attacker.

Once again, Trump
was using women, and, in the process, avoiding owning up to his own predatory
predilections. Evidently, Trump was suggesting that his misogyny is OK because
Bill Clinton cheated on his wife, or that Hillary Clinton defended him, or
something.

It was tawdry, but
not shocking. Trump has made it clear throughout this campaign that there is no
fellow human he won’t debase if they try to cross him.

Trump threatened
that if he wins on Nov. 8, he would use the power of his office to appoint a
special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton.

“You should be in
jail,” Trump said, invoking a dictatorial and fundamentally un-American idea
that the victor torments, banishes and persecutes his opposition.

In July, Trump
ridiculed Khizr Khan and Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star parents of Capt. Humayun
Khan, who was killed in Iraq trying to save a soldier.

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